Join the JP Historical Society, the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club
and the Boston Women's Heritage Trail to celebrate Women’s History
month and honor the legacy of an amazing woman, Pauline Agassiz Shaw.
Enjoy free pizza from JP's Bella Luna Restaurant, and learn more about
Women's History Month in Boston through the Boston Women's Heritage
Trail.
Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841-1917) was a wealthy JP
resident, who used her money to pay for a vast number of philanthropic
efforts aimed at bettering the lives of those most at risk.
She founded the North Bennet Street School,
financed the first kindergartens in America (for ten years, before
convincing the Boston Public Schools to officially take on this area of
education), created day nurseries and Neighborhood Houses, lobbied for
prison reform and world peace and was an ardent suffragist. She not
only argued the need for all these services and reforms but
she bankrolled the early ‘start-ups’ to prove their worth. Read more
about Agassiz Shaw on our events calendar or at the Boston Women's Heritage Trail website.
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This special panel is put together by Mary Smoyer of the JP Historical Society.
Mary Smoyer has been researching Women’s History in JP for more than
two decades. She created the JP Women’s Heritage Trail walking tour and
does a panel on women’s history in JP every March.